Team 4

Pitch your ideas:

• Current situation (now)
  • some educators fail to understand why technology is important within the classroom and there is no sense urgency
    
    
• Propose new way forward
  • develop an understanding of why technological integration enhances student learning and get buy in
    
    
• Share strategies and resources for this (3 months)
  • create a school-wide Technology Committee (made up of teachers, senior administrators, and faculty) to:
    • revisit school vision and revise if necessary to current thinking about technology
    • look at the research of 21st Century Learning to help paint the picture of using tech in the classroom
    • create a blog or forum as a teacher resource where tech savvy teachers share ideas and resources
      
  • Technology Committee to present vision, research, and blog to staff (1 month)
    • present with tools we want the teachers to be using in the classroom
      
      
  • Map out the way forward; how this is going to happen: ( to revisit after 6 months)
    • build a network of small groups within your school to share tech ideas - finding common ground - make this a focus - and then go out from there - must come from administration coupled with PD
    • teachers acts as mentors for each other and administrators
    • skill share sessions - formal and informal
      
      
  • When recruiting, make sure to make the vision and philosophy are clear and a requirement (utilize ISTE expectations)

Members

Claire and Richard

Developing expectations of teachers - what a teacher should be able to do / appraisal /contractual
Connecting teachers strategy - PLN